Word: gavelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figures sank down with gloomy dignity behind the long bench. Duplicates in wrinkled old flesh of the classic busts of their predecessors niched in the walls around them, the eight fine faces peered out through the shadows of the courtroom. Then the crier, in sharply pressed cutaway, rapped his gavel once and announced: "Oyez, oyez, oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable Court...
Wielding the gavel will be Frederic A. Webster '35, president of the Phillips Brooks House Association; E. Francis Bowditch '35, president of the Student Council will expound its aims and activities; for the CRIMSON, President John H. Morison '35 will carry the torch; Francis D. Moore '35, president of the Lampoon, Howard H. Mason '35, president of the Advocate, John C. Haggott '35, president of the Dramatic Club, and Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, president of the Mountaineering Club, will speak for their respective organizations. William G. Kirby '35, president of the Glee Club will speak both for the Pierian...
Pink-cheeked from cruising in and out of Norwegian fjords, Robert Worth Bingham, President Roosevelt's wispish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was able to take the gavel with the consent of his doctors when the International Wheat Conference convened last week in London...
...Malley a Congressman, also made Father O'Malley an officeholder for the first time in his life. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of the sovereign and progressive State of Wisconsin. For the last 19 months Lieutenant Governor O'Malley has divided his time between punching tickets and pounding his gavel on the rostrum of Wisconsin's Senate. Last week he proved his willingness to do both for the New Deal...
Under the brisk gavel of Dr. William Chalmers Covert, its new Moderator, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. wound up in Cleveland last week its annual General Assembly. Work done...